The Race for the Atom Bomb : How Soviet Russia Stole the Secrets of the Manhattan Project

When Nazi Germany began a secret weapons program called “The Uranium Club” in April 1939, Stalin was alerted by his American and British spies of the possibility that German scientists were working to develop an atomic bomb. The British Government and the United States, and Stalin, realized that if Hitler used The Atom Bomb, it could mean the end of the West or the end of the world.John Harte's new book about The Manhattan Project describes how Soviet Russia's leading spymasters in Moscow Center obtained information from British and American physicists to make a Soviet atomic bomb at each and every stage when the American bomb was developed at Los Alamos in New Mexico. Cover Book Title Copyright Contents WORLD CRISIS Introduction Chapter 1 Modern Times Chapter 2 An Awkward Undergraduate Chapter 3 A Tortured Adolescence Chapter 4 The Magical Spell of Physics Chapter 5 Different Strokes for Different Folks Chapter 6 The World Beckons Chapter 7 Oppie REDS Chapter 8 The Red Scare Chapter 9 We the Living Chapter 10 Political Activists Chapter 11 The Atomic Bomb Project Chapter 12 Who Was Kitty Harris? Chapter 13 The Nuclear Programme Chapter 14 Germany’s Secret Weapons Chapter 15 The Intellectual and the Militarist DESTROYER OF WORLDS Chapter 16 Merchants of Death Chapter 17 The Pied Piper of Los Alamos Chapter 18 Achieving Critical Mass Chapter 19 A Magical Place Chapter 20 Dangerous Associations Chapter 21 Problem Number One Chapter 22 The Race for the Atom Bomb Chapter 23 The Future of the Human Race Plates SOVIET SECRET AGENTS Chapter 24 Soviet Spies Saving the World Chapter 25 The Experimental Atomic Test Chapter 26 A Japanese Target Chapter 27 Japan Chapter 28 Unconditional Surrender Chapter 29 Back to Normal Chapter 30 A World Transformed Chapter 31 American Genius WITCH-HUNT Chapter 32 Enemies in Waiting Chapter 33 Soviet Russia’s Atom Bomb Chapter 34 Conspiracy Theories Chapter 35 The Venona Revelations Chapter 36 Witch-hunt Chapter 37 The Problem of Survival Chapter 38 The Hidden Struggle for the H-bomb HUMILIATION Chapter 39 Trial by Hysteria Chapter 40 A Letter of Indictment Chapter 41 One Thing is Certain Timeline About the Author Notes Index Back Cover When Nazi Germany began a secret weapons program called The Uranium Club in April 1939, Stalin was alerted by his American and British spies of the possibility that German scientists were working to develop an atomic bomb. The British Government and the United States, and Stalin, realized that if Hitler used The Atom Bomb, it could mean the end of the West or the end of the world. John Hartes new book about The Manhattan Project describes how Soviet Russias leading spymasters in Moscow Center obtained information from British and American physicists to make a Soviet atomic bomb at each and every stage when the American bomb was developed at Los Alamos in New Mexico. True account of the rise and fall of the American genius Robert Oppenheimer, chosen by the U.S. military to head a team of scientists to develop the first atomic bomb. Timed with the release of Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jnr